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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9385698" data-attributes="member: 6801845">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/defining-new-school-play.704793/post-9385083[/URL]Old School: When the character meets a group of wood elves the player must talk to and interact with them in real time. The player must use the game lore, elf lore, and nature lore to say relevant things. 
If you simply expect someone to act in character and make up what they think might be an appropriate greeting, that has nothing to do with OS or NS.&nbsp; If you mean they have to study 3 books to understand what the proper phrases are in you head canon I have a hard time seriously believing any DM would still have players.By the way, what 3 books? What are the titles, authors, and where can I get access to them?In no way does &quot;easy&quot; represent every NS game.&nbsp; Heck, some OS games probably just relied on a herd of hirelings* to set off all the traps and protect the PCs.&nbsp; For me I don't want a game to be easy, I want choices and decisions that matter, I want risks and rewards.&nbsp; It has nothing to do with NS or OS.&nbsp; Which is something people repeatedly keep pointing out, that you are incredibly dismissive of anything that contradicts your statements.&nbsp; This is similar to someone telling bigoted jokes and then just saying &quot;I was just kidding&quot;.&nbsp; Except that in your case you seem to simply blame everyone who points out your clear bias and elitism for being wrong because only you know the truth.*Maybe that should be a grovel of hirelings? A meat wall of hirelings? A cannon fodder of hirelings? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure&nbsp; &nbsp; :unsure:"&nbsp; data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" /> </blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9385698, member: 6801845"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/defining-new-school-play.704793/post-9385083[/URL] [INDENT][I]Old School: When the character meets a group of wood elves the player must talk to and interact with them in real time. The player must use the game lore, elf lore, and nature lore to say relevant things. [/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] If you simply expect someone to act in character and make up what they think might be an appropriate greeting, that has nothing to do with OS or NS. If you mean they have to study 3 books to understand what the proper phrases are in you head canon I have a hard time seriously believing any DM would still have players. By the way, what 3 books? What are the titles, authors, and where can I get access to them? In no way does "easy" represent every NS game. Heck, some OS games probably just relied on a herd of hirelings* to set off all the traps and protect the PCs. For me I don't want a game to be easy, I want choices and decisions that matter, I want risks and rewards. It has nothing to do with NS or OS. Which is something people repeatedly keep pointing out, that you are incredibly dismissive of anything that contradicts your statements. This is similar to someone telling bigoted jokes and then just saying "I was just kidding". Except that in your case you seem to simply blame everyone who points out your clear bias and elitism for being wrong because only you know the truth. [I]*Maybe that should be a grovel of hirelings? A meat wall of hirelings? A cannon fodder of hirelings? :unsure: [/I] [/QUOTE]

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